Purism

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Purism is an early 20th-century art movement, associated with figures like Le Corbusier and Amédée Ozenfant, that emphasized clean lines, geometric forms, and a rejection of decorative excess in favor of clarity and order.

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instanceOf 20th-century art movement
art movement
activePeriodEnd mid-1920s
activePeriodStart 1918
artForm painting
still life
associatedWith Amédée Ozenfant NERFINISHED
Fernand Léger NERFINISHED
Le Corbusier NERFINISHED
Ozenfant and Jeanneret studio NERFINISHED
coreConcept harmony between art and industry
purification of forms
standardized objects
countryOfOrigin France
foundedBy Amédée Ozenfant NERFINISHED
Le Corbusier NERFINISHED
hasCharacteristic clarity
clean lines
emphasis on essential forms
geometric forms
limited color palette
objectivity
order
rational composition
rejection of decorative excess
smooth surfaces
inception 1918
influenced International Style architecture NERFINISHED
Le Corbusier’s architectural theory
modernist architecture
influencedBy Cubism
Paul Cézanne NERFINISHED
industrial design
machine aesthetics
manifestoPublicationYear 1918
manifestoPublishedIn Après le Cubisme NERFINISHED
movementLanguage flat, even color areas
precise drawing
movementType modern art movement
opposedTo decorative excess
late Cubist fragmentation
promotedIn L’Esprit Nouveau magazine NERFINISHED
subjectMatter architectural elements
bottles
glasses
mechanical objects
theoreticalText Après le Cubisme NERFINISHED
L’Esprit Nouveau NERFINISHED

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Amédée Ozenfant artStyle Purism
this entity surface form: Purist
Crystal Cubism influenced Purism
Three Women influencedBy Purism
Amédée Ozenfant movement Purism
Esprit Nouveau journal movement Purism
subject surface form: Esprit Nouveau
Tubism relatedToMovement Purism